In an industry-wide effort to increase fuel economy, automakers have made a conscious effort to downsize engines. For example, a turbocharged V8 in the all-new BMW M5 replaces the naturally aspirated V10 from the outgoing model. Ford’s EcoBoost V6 in the F-150 has been biting chunks away from less economical V8 sales. And GM placed a 2.0-liter turbocharged four cylinder engine into the Buick Regal GS, where many first expected a V6.
This will be the trend for the foreseeable future. But despite the emphasis on petroleum portion control, engineers have also made great efforts pulling out as much horsepower and torque as possible from these downsized engines, making them both more powerful and efficient than most of the larger engines these marvels of engineering have gone to replace.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that The General is reportedly planning to debut an all-new 2.0-liter turbocharged four-pot in the near future — most likely in what we know as the upcoming Cadillac ATS — that will be capable of churning out power figures between 270 and 280 horsepower, or possibly more.
The new engine will be part of the latest Ecotec line that includes the all-new 2.5-liter engine announced for the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. But more importantly, that power rating will smack around the larger and less efficient 3.0-liter V6 featured in the BMW 328i, and is powerful enough to phase out the 270 horsepower 3.0-liter V6 that GM currently has in vehicles such as the Cadillac CTS and GMC Terrain. Additionally, if these power ratings hold true, there’s a nice division in power between this new high-output Ecotec and the 312 horsepower 3.6-liter LFX V6. Less is more? In this case, absolutely.
Source: Autoblog
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yes!!!
I KNOW RIGHT, DONT I LOOK SO GOOD TYPING IN LARGE FONTS… 🙂 sorry I will try to control myself in the near future…
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I’m actually waiting to see how long it will be before something like a 2.0L V6 twin turbo appears. I’m all for smaller engines, but as technology improves and buyers warm up to the idea, smaller 6s or maybe even 8s will start to do very well.
I am surprised that the “power ratings” of these engines surprise the GM Authority team. Just go back to the recently disappeared quartet of very well engineered vehicles: HHR SS, Cobalt SS, Soltice GXP and Sky GT. All of them had the LNF 2.0L Turbo with an HP rating of 260 out of the factory. And if you wanted and enhancement of it you could go and buy the Stage 2 kit at any Chevy / Pontiac dealer and increase the power to 300HP. Amnesia or poor Chevy marketing?
Who said that we were surprised?
I think this is an all-new engine it doesn’t based on the engine that it already has now
The Malibu needs this new 2.0 turbo enginerated at 275hp and 280lbs to take out the new Sonata. Moreover the 2.5 ecotec should be rated at least 205hp and 185lbs while delilvering at least 23mpg in the city and 35mpg with a more advance 6 or 7 speed transmission. Come on GM, please consider my advice and the Malibu sales should go through the roof in the midsize catergory, the world over.
Which that would leads to Malibu going on a diet